Without coaches, without gurus, without any other resources, they simply saved some money, bought a property, managed it as best they could, and held it for 30+ years. 

My guess is they simply cleaned the entire unit. 

When looking at violent and property crime rates, I cut out some markets because I felt their crime rates were higher than I was comfortable with.

Curious what the more experienced folks here think is the best strategy given the current rate cuts happening.

You can not “short cut” it.  5.

The current rates already included the anticipated rate cut.

Here is an opinion: The increasing US deficit and US rate cuts will cause asset valuations to rise. 

Now, you can simply reverse engineer that #, or better yet have auto-calc that does that.

There is a lot of new development moving south and west of Notre Dame.As for the specific neighborhoods - I think you can simply refer to the Trulia crime map as it tends to be pretty accurate.

She found out they were trying to cut her out of the deal, the owner will delay things till the agency agreement expires.